The Portland daily press., 1887-06-10

many OtnerS, all OF WnOm nave care1ully
and critically examined our appliance at a
time when they could thoroughly test its
heating capacity and discover any imperfec-
| tiOns in its practical work.
AS the report of the Mechanical Depart-
ment Will show, trains have been equipped
on the Michigan central Railroad and run
continuously when heat was required to the
present time, and with such success that the
Assistant Superintendent, Robert Muller, a
Wen known railway expert, declared in
terms that the Sewall System "did all that
Was wi. Claimed for it and very prettily;" on the
rltcnDurg Railroad where the strongest COM
mendatlons OF its work are given by officers
ana employees, and on the New Yerk and
New England Railroad where it is run from
Boston to the Hudson river, and has received
like praise from all parties. Orders from the
Grand Trunk Railway of Canada direct the
preparation of car equipment running from
Montreal, and the management are in cor
respondence with the Baltimore and Ohio
and other central roads as to equipment of
trains, and the general adoption of our sys-
TEN with prospect of success.
The management received a request from
the Wasson Manufacturing Company of
Springfield, Mass, for consultation as to
heating several new cars now in process of
construction for use on government railways
in Chilli, and the mechanical superintendent
OF that company after consultation with the
general manager having experience with
| other heating appliances especially with the
Martin and other steam heaters, selected
the Sewall system as the best, and the COM
pany are now in correspondence as to the
details with the Wasson Company and the
| Chilian agent as to the equipment of the
| government roads of that country.
| The successful operation, interest in the
| work and continuous equipment of cars on
the Maine Central railroad are so well
known that no comment is needed and the
facts are not overstated when the system
and all Its parts have received the very
strongest testimony of the same character
and strength and to the same, effect as that
OF General Manager Payson Tucker IN his
letter to General Manager Sewall of this
company dated March 81, 1887, with which
you are familiar from its incorporation in
one OF the regular circulars of this company.
| Practical mechanics in charge of and using
our system on other roads fully agree with
the statements of the mechanical experts of
| the Maine Central railroad as to the excel
lence OF the system in its practical work in
all parts which have also been issued in
form of printed affidavits in our series of
circulars taken in legal form as sworn testi-
mony from men of the highest character and
knowledge of railway appliances and
mechanical science.
The first train of cars was fitted at the
shops OF the Portland Company here but the
expenses were found to be very large and
the capacity of the company to supply the
| parts required for any considerable num-
Der OF cars promptly, far too small.
10 meet this condition of affairs and be
| able to supply a sudden demand tenders have
been asked for and prices made by several
| well known and responsible firms contingent
| upon the amount OF work required at greatly
reduced prices, so that the company can
avail Itself OF any portion of these tenders
and secure supply of equipment from these
sources to meet the requirements which the
| approach OF cold weather will probably bring
| without the expenditure required to estab-
llSh large shop until the work is so far es-
ta6iished as to indicate clearly the most suit
| able location for this business plant and at a
| great saving in time of equipment and
promptness of supply as well as at much less
| expense.
In the preparation of patents and models
ana special appliances to insure rapid hand
ing small shop with power has been
leased where special tools and new devices
ana improvements are manufactured and de-
yeloped by the mechanical superintendent
for the benefit of the company.
lt VIII be noted that our system is we'll To-
Gated on the principal road in our own State
ON important railways running into Boston
and on the Michigan Central, which is a yery
prominent Western line so that being at and
near the railway centres it is accessible to
examination and constant test at principal
railway centres, and while it is too much to
expect that In a few months immense cor
poratlons should change their full equip-
ment and contract for a new heating system.
however excellent it may be, the unanimous
is received by the best mechanics and the
commendatlon of experts who have exam
ined 1t for the important lines seem to point
Enthusiastically to a large and successful bust
ness in the near future, which these roads
now using our system are so located as to
greatly facilitate
The management fully believe that this
work of preparation, which has necessarily
involved considerable time and some expend-
lture, which has been made as small as pos
sible, will result in an active and important
business and returns financially, that will
satisfy the most sanguineof those who have
manifested their confidence in the company
by purchasing in its stock an interest In its
future success.
ent will show the work of that department
more particularly, and the secretary and
treasurer will show the financial operations
and condition since the organization and at
the present time.
Report of the Mechanical Depart
ment.
have the honor to submit the following
report of the work of the Sewall Safety Car
Heating Company. November 1st. 1856,
entered upon the duties of this department
beginning to fit cars with its appliances at
the Portland Company's shops in this city.
The first train completed consisted of four
cars, (and with the best facilities it was pos
sible to obtain we were unable to complete
this equipment till Jan. 10, 1887 when the
first trip was made to Bangor about the first
of January, returning the next day. The
apparatus, in all respects, worked perfectly.
and from that time to the present, when heat
has been needed, has been continuously used.
Tho nnnOcifa froiv
during the coldest weather of the last severe
winter has been regularly in use under every
possible variety of conditions.
These trains have been visited, tested and
examined by the general public and by rail-
way experts of all classes very frequently.
and have fully met the most exact
ing criticism in their daily and
on trains in motion and at rest. on cars heat
ed ana standing over night in bleak places
and exposed to unusual extremes of cold In
subsection to control to meet the reQuire
ments OF mild and severe. weather and sud
den changes is economy of fuel and prompti-
tude OF action, on cars taken ON trains cold
from side tracks, both the general and
auxiliary systems have fully met all the re-
quirements and done all our statements and
circulars promised; so that each day was
practically a continual test. A single in
trate this, viz: On February 26th, 1887, we
left Bangor with three cars, steam heated
took ON a car cold at Waterville; made it
promptly comfortable for passengers, heat
Ing it in transit and another car cold at
Augusta, also heating 1t in transit, it being
sharp winter day. Met the Railway Com
missioners of Maine and Massachusetts, and
large number of railway experts in the
private car of Manager Furber of the Bos-
ton d Maine railroad, who accompanied the
party, consisting of Manager Furber, Super
lntendent John Adams and Master Car
Builder j. w. Marden of the Fitchburg rail-
road, Master Car Builder +. d. Adams and
Master Mechanic Barnes of the Boston 81
Albany railroad; j. NJ Lander, Superintend-
ent of Motive Power of the Old Colony rail
road: j. b. Henney, Superintendent of Mo-
tive Power of the New York & New England
railroad, and others; reaching Portland on
time In severe snow storm and with abun-
dance of heat under perfect control and per-
fectly satisfying the experts present
Since then have fitted up trains on the
Michigan Central under the superintendency
of Robert Miller; onI the Fitchburg r. X.
under direction of President John Adams.
running from Boston to Fitchburg, Mass:
on the New York and New England r.. r..
managed by VIM. B. Shinn, well-known
expert in steam appliances, running from
Boston to Fishkill, on the Hudson, New
York. All these trains from the time of
completion have been and still are in con-
tlnuous use and giving perfect satisfaction to
the mechanical experts in charge of rolling
stock and motor power. being handled sue
cessfully and satisfactorily by the regular |